1. Preface: Write Now: American Literature in the 1980s and 1990–Sharon O'Brien

2. Books and Silence–Jonathan Strong

3. f-Words: An Essay on the Essay–Rachel Blau DuPlessis

4. Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar as Pastiche–Bonnie Braendlin

5. Art Spiegelman's Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust–Thomas Doherty

6. Food, Sex, and Betrayal–Miriam Levine

7. Reservation Home Movies: Sherman Alexie's Poetry–Jennifer Gillan

8. Nothing Left to Lose: Housekeeping's Strange Freedoms–Christine Caver

9. Resignifying Autobiography: Lyn Hejinian's My Life–Juliana Spahr

10. "Standing At The Corner Of Walk And Don't Walk": Vintage Contemporaries, Bright Lights, Big City, and the Problems of betweenness–Stephanie Girard

11. Heart's Blood–Robert Olmstead

12. "How to Live. What to do.": The Poetics and Politics of AIDS–Deborah Landau

Book Reviews

13. The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume I: 1590-1820 by Sacvan Bercovitch–Carla Mulford

14. Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England by Stephen Carl Arch–Bernard Rosenthal

15. The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine Semiotics by Stephen H. Daniel–Christopher Grasso

16. American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860 by Nina Baym–Sharon M. Harris

17. That Pale Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century America by Eva Cherniavsky–Michelle Burnham

18. Parables of Possibility: The American Need for Beginnings by Terence Martin–Armida Gilbert

19. The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child by Carolyn L. Karcher–Dana D. Nelson

20. Cultural Reformations: Lydia Maria Child and the Literature of Reform by Bruce Mills–Marilyn M. Wilton

21. Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida by Stanley Cavell–Martin Kevorkian

22. The Civil War World of Herman Melville by Stanton Garner–Robert Milder

23. Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance by John Bryant–Elizabeth Huyck

24. Melville's Art of Democracy by Nancy Fredricks–Bruce L. Grenberg

25. Melville and the Politics of Identity: From "King Lear" to "Moby-Dick” by Julian Markels–Linck C. Johnson

26. Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self by Bruce Michelson–Louis J. Budd

27. Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance by Randall Knoper–Gregg Camfield

28. The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse by Carol Nackenoff–Charles L. Crow

29. Transcendent Daughters in Jewett's "Country of the Pointed Firs” by Joseph Church–Victoria Brehm

30. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings by Carol Farley Kessler–Dale Bauer

31. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas–Chip Rhodes

32. Howard Mumford Jones and the Dynamics of Liberal Humanism by Peter Brier–Paul Hansom

33. The "Other" New York Jewish Intellectuals by Carole S. Kessner–Peter Powers

34. Out of Line: History, Psychoanalysis, and Montage in H. D.'s Long Poems by Susan Edmunds–Hilary Holladay

35. Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Literary Radicalism by Alan Filreis–David H. Hesla

36. The Frost Family's Adventure in Poetry: Sheer Morning Gladness at the Brim by Lesley Lee Francis–Lewis Klausner

37. Modernism, Medicine, and William Carlos Williams by T. Hugh Crawford–Sara Lundquist

38. The Underground Stream: The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon by Nancylee Novell Jonza–Brian Abel Ragen

39. The Life of William Faulkner by Richard Gray–Cathy Chance Harvey

40. Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color by Linda Leavell–David Bergman

41. The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics by Marilyn May Lombardi–Gary Kerley

42. The Dream and the Dialogue: Adrienne Rich's Feminist Poetics by Alice Templeton–Gertrude Reif Hughes

43. Echoes and Moving Fields: Structure and Subjectivity in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin and John Ashbery by Edward Haworth Hoeppner–Luke Spencer

44. Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place by Jan Nordby Gretlund–Betty J. Cortright

45. The Family Saga in the South: Generations and Destinies by Robert O. Stephens–Laurie Champion

46. Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction by Laura E. Tanner–Susan V. Donaldson

47. The Stories of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study by Kirk Nesset–Bryan D. Dietrich

48. Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body by Moira Ferguson–Lynda Koolish

49. History and Memory in African-American Culture by Geneviève Fabre, Robert O'Meally–Priscilla Wald

50. "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative by Farah Jasmine Griffin–Elizabeth B. House

51. Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins by Rafael Pérez-Torres–Ilan Stavans

52. Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions by Robert Allen Warrior–Kenneth M. Roemer

53. Women Artists and Writers: Modernist (Im)positionings by Bridget Elliott, Jo-Ann Wallace–Sherrill Grace

54. Listening to Silences: New Essays in Feminist Criticism by Elaine Hedges, Shelley Fisher Fishkin–Paula S. Berggren

55. Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism by Jenny Wolmark–Carol Baker Sapora

56. Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk by Joseph Tabbi–Michael Wutz

57. Cross-Cultural Reckonings: A Triptych of Russian, American, and Canadian Texts by Blanche H. Gelfant–Ellen Pifer

58. Elie Wiesel's Secretive Texts by Colin Davis–Miriyam Glazer

59. The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story by Andrew Levy–Donald D. Kummings

60. Brief Mention

61. Announcements

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